Christopher Nolan caught John David Washington with a backpack full of Pringles while he was supposed to be dieting for 'Tenet'

• John David Washington says that Christopher Nolan once caught him cheating on his strict "Tenet" diet plan with a backpack full of paprika flavored Pringles.
• "I was on strict dietary restrictions but I was going crazy and I needed my snacks," Washington said during an interview on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
• "So there was a time in Estonia where I found these paprika flavored Pringles and you can't get them anywhere else in the world, so I was like I had to do it and I stacked them up in my backpack and I get on the elevator where I was staying and lo and behold there's Christopher Nolan, he saw me, he caught me with all these pringles in my bag. It was very embarrassing and he started laughing at me and gave me a hard time the entire shoot."
• Christopher Nolan did, however, allow Washington to keep his pringles. "I told him paprika: where are you ever going to see flavored Pringles like this? And he agreed."

John David Washington says that Christopher Nolan once caught him cheating on his strict "Tenet" diet plan with a backpack full of paprika flavored Pringles.

"I was on strict dietary restrictions but I was going crazy and I needed my snacks," Washington said during an interview on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."

"So there was a time in Estonia where I found these paprika flavored Pringles and you can't get them anywhere else in the world, so I was like I had to do it and I stacked them up in my backpack and I get on the elevator where I was staying and lo and behold there's Christopher Nolan, he saw me, he caught me with all these pringles in my bag. It was very embarrassing and he started laughing at me and gave me a hard time the entire shoot."

Even though Washington was breaking the strict dietary and work-out regime he had been set during the production of "Tenet," he says that director Christopher Nolan ultimately allowed him to keep his pringles. "I told him, paprika: where are you ever going to see flavored pringles like this? And he agreed."

"Didn't affect me, though, I stayed in shape," he said. "I was in some of the best shape of my life."

"Tenet" is Christopher Nolan's latest brainy blockbuster and the film follows John David Washington as The Protagonist, a secret agent who is trying to stop the Russian supervillain Andrei Sator, played by Kenneth Branagh, from ending the world.

Washington is aided by Neil (Robert Pattinson) and Kat (Elizabeth Debicki), but their mission takes on a substantial time-traveling twist, which forced Washington to learn how to execute many of his complicated fight scenes backwards.

"There was about a two month period of training. Two a day, sometimes three a day training," he said. "Learning the rules of inversion, which our movie deals with and temporal pincer movements. So what does that mean? Learn how to walk, talk, fight, block, snap necks, roll, jump, backwards."

"Tenet" is the first big blockbuster film to be released since the pandemic forced theatres across the world to close their doors in March. And early reports show that the spy thriller has been able to pull audiences back to the big screen with healthy box office returns in both the US and UK.

Watch the full James Corden interview below:

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